Katja Bury (*1983) studied German language and literature at the University of Stuttgart and school music at the State University of Music Trossingen. This was followed by initial internships and assistantships at the Stuttgart State Opera and an engagement as an assistant dramaturge at the Braunschweig State Theatre. From 2012 to 2019, she was dramaturge for music theatre at the Stadttheater Bern. From 2019 to 2024, she studied theology in Bern and Zurich and is currently completing her trainee vicariate in the parish of Wohlen near Bern. She will take up her first pastorate near Bern in 2025. She is passionate about the connection between church and culture and is committed to Interfilm Switzerland (jury participation in 2021 and 2022 for the Prix Célestine at the Human Rights Film Festival Zurich).
Theologian and dramaturge
Country of origin
Switzerland
Festivals
Current issues
Comment by Peter Paul Huth on the decisions of the international festival jury
Towards the end of the Berlinale, it becomes clear what criteria had to be met for a film to be invited to the Competition. Either it had to be directed by a female director or the protagonist had to be female, says Peter Paul Huth in his Berlinale report on competition films from four countries.
Events
16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin
11.10.2023
Café of the Propsteikirche Leipzig, Nonnenmühlgasse 2